The decree that reforms the General Law of Social Communication, approved last Tuesday afternoon in the Senate and sent to the federal Executive for its eventual promulgation, establishes that the federal entities, municipalities and territorial demarcations of the Mexico City they will determine their own spending limit for the Annual Social Communication Program.
The federal Legislative branch thus eliminated the 0.1% limit established by the current law for such spending, the application of which is provisionally suspended by the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (SCJN) by being part of the package of changes of the so-called “Plan B” of electoral reform, approved last December and contested by opposition senators and different municipalities of the country.
“The Federative Entities, the municipalities and the territorial demarcations of Mexico City, will determine their own spending limit for the Annual Social Communication Program, considering the principles set forth in article 5 Bis of this law,” quotes the amendment approved to last paragraph of article 26 of the cited law.
The principles referred to in the General Law of Social Communication for the application of public spending in government propaganda are, among others, republican austerity, economy and budgetary rationality.
The reform implies that it will be the federal entities, municipalities and territorial demarcations of the capital of the country who determine their own spending limit on social comunicationconsidering the characteristics of each one.
“The spending limit of the Annual Social Communication Program, as a whole, should not exceed 0.1% of the corresponding Annual Expenditure Budget,” quotes the paragraph that was eliminated and replaced.
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